Helen Keller
218 quotes
Biography
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old.
"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."
"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much"
"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."
"People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."
"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
"What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me."
"Literature is my Utopia"
"Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within"
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn."
"Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love."
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
"I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence."
"Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
"Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly."
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."
"Your success and happiness lie in you."
"Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design."
"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui."